Quotes About Competition

I'm just a football player.

Of course I would like to play with Cristiano Ronaldo - he is a great player.

Playing in the Champions League is a big dream of mine. When you are a player and have a chance to play in it, it's a good thing.

Like every player, I want to start more matches.

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.

When Misha Cirkunov started his UFC career a perfect 4-0, I really thought he'd be a legit player at 205.

It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.

Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

They are among the three best in the world: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar are the three best players in the world and I'm happy I have one of them playing alongside me.

The other players are all normal human beings, so just play your best and play free.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.

If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

It was my dream for a long time to play in the NBA. When I was drafted, it was a challenge for me. I decided to go and see where I was compared to the best players in the world.

Managers don't play. We the players play.

I watch a lot of badminton, and as a result, I know more or less about the forms of most of the players.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.